Word: nye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some, the Big Four move was a dirty American trick. "President Eisenhower has never believed that any good will come out of top-level talks," said Laborite Woodrow Wyatt. "All he is trying to do is to prevent the Labor Party from winning." Nye Bevan added bitterly, "There is no government in Great Britain that the American millionaires want more than a British government which represents British millionaires...
...Nye Bevan, by contrast, was all slash and stab. "The Tawies have got the difficult task ... of trying to persuade the poor to vote the rich back into power . . . Eden has been the best-looking man in British politics for 40 years . . . He's been sitting on his charger waiting for Sir Winston to ride and . . . now he's a bit saddle-sore...
...Nye Bevan's chosen enemy was not just Eden, but a' whole class-including the ten Etonians in Eden's Cabinet. At Scots-toun, near Glasgow, Nye singled out the Cecils, that historic family whose present member, Lord Salisbury is one of Eden's closest advisers. "Salisbury is a Cecil," Bevan almost spat the name at his audience. "The Cecils have been in the government of England since the Poor Law was enacted. They built country houses in the best parts of England, and they built workhouses in the worst parts. Youngsters who have come...
...pure roof-raising demagoguery and raking of old hatred, the Tories had nothing to match Nye Bevan. But then there were many who regarded Bevan as a liability when it came to getting the votes where Labor most needed them: among the middle class, which distrusted the upper-class overtones of Toryism but disliked the raucous dogmatism of Labor...
...whole issue of the class war-whether you prefer a government which plans to divide the wealth before they think out how to increase it, or one which pushes forward and creates new wealth in which we all can share." He brought up the name of Nye Bevan. "I don't propose to waste much time on this fellah this evening," said Butler. "I was reading Pilgrim's Progress recently. In it, Christian meets up with a Mr. Talkative from Prating-row. I was very struck by something that Christian said of him. He said...